i40e: Fix flow for IPv6 next header (extension header)

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When a packet contains an IPv6 header with next header which is
an extension header and not a protocol one, the kernel function
skb_transport_header called with such sk_buff will return a
pointer to the extension header and not to the TCP one.

The above explained call caused a problem with packet processing
for skb with encapsulation for tunnel with I40E_TX_CTX_EXT_IP_IPV6.
The extension header was not skipped at all.

The ipv6_skip_exthdr function does check if next header of the IPV6
header is an extension header and doesn't modify the l4_proto pointer
if it points to a protocol header value so its safe to omit the
comparison of exthdr and l4.hdr pointers. The ipv6_skip_exthdr can
return value -1. This means that the skipping process failed
and there is something wrong with the packet so it will be dropped.

Fixes: a3fd9d8876 ("i40e/i40evf: Handle IPv6 extension headers in checksum offload")
Signed-off-by: Slawomir Laba <slawomirx.laba@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Przemyslaw Patynowski <przemyslawx.patynowski@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Aleksandr Loktionov <aleksandr.loktionov@intel.com>
Tested-by: Tony Brelinski <tonyx.brelinski@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com>

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Slawomir Laba 2020-09-10 07:57:04 +00:00 • committed by Tony Nguyen

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drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_txrx.c

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